Department of Character Protective Services

A golden shield. The various divisions may have a modified version of this.

The Department of Character Protective Services was created as something of an offshoot of the PPC, with shared technology but limited interaction. It has since evolved into two divisions, one notable for its field service and the other loyal to the original, office-format counseling focus.

It is headed by the Asphodel and made up of both full-time case workers as well as moonlighting agents from other departments, all of whom work to help and protect a specific character or characters. Its flash patch is a golden shield.

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The DCPS contains office space for its Counseling Division. It is also known to have a first-aid room containing goodfic as an antidote to the pain caused by gross and unbearable character abuse.[1][2]

The DCPS was originally considered an offshoot of the PPC that shared the same technology, but little else. Its agents dealt with badfic by removing the canon from the story's influence, not the other way around.[3] The DCPS merged with the PPC c. 2005 due to one or two things: 1) The invention of the Simulation Generator, and/or 2) The Flowers getting fed up with case workers abusing their power and removing their favorite characters from any situation that so much as inconvenienced them.[3]

The Field Division is the more standard division of the DCPS. Its agents are tasked with protecting specific characters, going into the field and dispatching badfic much like the other departments. Agents in the Field Division are often also employed by other departments, working for the DCPS in a secondary function.

The Counseling Division of the DCPS is located in a series of large rooms full of cubicles. Unlike the Field Division and other departments, the DCPS CD does not interact directly with badfic or provide agents with RCs or other standard equipment. Instead, each agent is assigned to a cubicle which quickly becomes highly personalized, the content and appearance (i.e. beanbag chairs) focused on putting visiting characters at ease. Typically one senior agent oversees the activity of the room at large, accepting reports and informing the other agents when their work is needed. In larger continua, such as Lord of the Rings, an entire room or section of cubicles is dedicated to the service of that particular fandom, but those of lesser need are likewise clustered with others of similar situation, or even assigned multiple per agent, dependent on need.